Archive

  • Standard Life Aberdeen grows AuM by 3%

    14 May 2019

    Joint venture with retail investment division of Virgin Money adds £3.5bn

  • Asset risk: biggest risk for Asian insurers

    02 May 2019

    With a lack of domestic long dated assets to match their long-term liabilities and some restrictions on overseas investments, Asian insurers’ biggest risk exposure comes from their investments. In Hong Kong, Vincent Huck meets with regional and local stakeholders to understand how they are coping and their expectations for the upcoming changes in regulations.

  • Lloyds takes £339m hit for estimated cost of Scottish Widows' manager switch

    02 May 2019

    One-off costs hit the banks’ Q1 profit

  • Oil firms unattractive without climate targets

    30 April 2019

    According to survey of 39 fund managers including insurers and their investment affiliates

  • The 'obscure' Solvency II co-investment rule

    30 April 2019

    Recent changes to co-investing rules under Solvency II have been received with mixed feelings by European insurers. Many players are even unaware there has been a development. Vincent Huck reports

  • China’s Belt & Road: where are the insurers’ investments?

    25 April 2019

    As China celebrates the sixth year of its initiative this week, insurers remain reluctant to invest in its projects. Vincent Huck asks why

  • Factor investing: what are the facts?

    23 April 2019

    While there has been a lot of hype around factor investing in the last decade, the jury is still out as to whether these types of strategies are of interest for insurers. David Turner looks at the state of play

  • Lloyd's syndicates open up about investment outsourcing

    11 April 2019

    Research by Insurance Risk Data reveals the 2018 winners and losers of the mandated asset managers for Lloyd's syndicates. David Walker reports on who won which mandates, who received applause and who wasn't that lucky.

  • Green bond strategies split French CIOs and CROs

    09 April 2019

    The difference in approach between insurers' risk and investment functions has been revealed at an event organised by the French institute of actuaries, in partnership with Schroders and Axa. This examined insurers' strategies to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. Vincent Huck reports

  • 13% of European insurance assets exposed to climate risk

    04 April 2019

    Eiopa tells French insurers at Paris conference